Changeset b3aee6e

Timestamp:

06/12/2004 02:35:28 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Alexander E. Patrakov <alexander@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

7db6ac5

Parents:

3e05705

Message:

Corrected console settings for British users

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3778 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter07/console.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -108 +108 @@
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: British people speak English but
+need loadkeys and setfont (reported by Dave Mascall on IRC). Corrected the
+text on the console page to account for this</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the "background" option to
 /etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an "if"

chapter07/console.xml

@@ -14 +14 @@
 <para>In this section we will configure the <command>console</command>
 initscript that sets up the keyboard
-map and the console font. If you are a native English speaker so that you
-don't need to use any non-ASCII characters, and your keyboard is a US one,
-skip this section. Without the configuration file,
+map and the console font. If you
+don't need to use any non-ASCII characters
+(British pound and Euro character are not ASCII),
+and your keyboard is a US one, you can skip this section.
+Without the configuration file,
 the <command>console</command> initscript will do nothing.</para>
 
@@ -51 +53 @@
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>If the KEYMAP or FONT variable is not set, the console initscript
-will not run the corresponding program.</para>
+<note><para>The FONT line above is correct only for the ISO-8859-15
+character set. If you prefer ISO-8859-1 and therefore use a pound sign
+instead of Euro, the correct FONT line is:</para>
+<screen><userinput>FONT="lat1-16"</userinput></screen></note>
+
+<para>If the KEYMAP or FONT variable is not set, the
+<command>console</command> initscript will not run the corresponding
+program.</para>
 
 <para>In some keymaps, the Backspace and Delete keys send characters
@@ -79 +87 @@
 after the main keymap:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;/etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt;EOF</userinput>
+<screen><userinput>cat &gt;&gt;/etc/sysconfig/console &lt;&lt;"EOF"</userinput>
 KEYMAP_CORRECTION="/etc/kbd/bs-sends-del"
 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>If back in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> you decided to go
-compile your keymap directly into the kernel (later on in <xref
-linkend="chapter-bootable"/>), then strictly speaking you don't need to run the
-loadkeys program, since the kernel will set up the keymap for you,
-and thus you may omit the KEYMAP variable from the
+<para>If you decided to
+compile your keymap directly into the kernel later on in <xref
+linkend="chapter-bootable"/> instead of setting it every time from the
+<command>console</command> bootscript, then you don't need to run the
+<command>loadkeys</command> program. Since the kernel will set up the keymap,
+you can omit the KEYMAP variable from the
 <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename>
 configuration file. If you wish,